GG Summarizer-Alyssa Tice
Chapter 5:
In this chapter Nick is on his way home from a date with Jourdan when Gastby surprises him by coming up behind him. Gatsby starts offering Nick all of this stuff because he wants Nick to agree to his Daisy plan. (Inviting her over for tea.) Nick says yes and Gastby is overjoyed. The meeting ends up being very awkward at first, but after Nick leaves for a little while he comes back and finds them overly happy.
Chapter 6:
In this chapter reporters come to Gatsby’s mansion and Nick tells them the truth about Gatsby’s early life. Tom is suspicious about the fact that Daisy is always visiting Gasby alone. He invites Gatsby over for dinner and Gatsby agrees to go. Then, Tom and Daisy come to one of Gatsby’s parties and Gatsby is upset because he thinks that Daisy has not had a good time. He wants it to be like it was when they first met.
Chapter 7:
In this chapter Gatsby fires all his servents and stops having his parties. The only reason he had them in the first place was to attract Daisy to his house. His love for her is taking up all of his time and he can’t think about anything else. During an awkward lunch meeting at Tom and Daisy’s house in East Egg, Tom sees the way Gatsby gazes at Daisy and is sure that they love each other. There is a confrontation between Tom and Gatsby and Daisy ends up going back to Gatsby’s mansion with him. Tom is okay with this because he wants to prove it will not hurt him.
*Do you think this plan of Nick’s will work? Will Daisy and Gatsby end up together, or will she stay with Tom?
*As she watches the conflict between Gatsby and Tom Daisy is leaning a little towards being on Tom’s side. What does this show?
Words:
Contemptuous- This means to show or express contempt or disdain. I picked this word because I have always thought I knew what it meant but I was not sure.
Ineffable- This means unable to be expressed with words. I chose this because it looked interesting.
Ramifications- The act of ramifying. I picked this word because it looked interesting.
Alyssa
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April 19th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I don’t think that Nick’s plan will work because I think she is some what scared of Tom even though she comes across as strong and independent. I think she would be worried if she left Tom that he would try to hurt her or Gatsby.
The fact tha Daist is leaning towards Tom proves my point that maybe she is scared of him. Like I said above I think she is worried that Tom’s anger would come out if she left him for Gatsby.
~Lauren Gress~
April 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
OK, I’m a little bit confused here. This is the last post, correct? So why are you talking about chapters 5, 6, and 7? We read those last week. With that said, we already know the answers to the two questions you asked. Daisy stays with Tom because, well, Gatsby’s dead. Even so, I think that Daisy would have stayed with Tom. Even though she claims to love Gatsby, she never really announces any plans to leave Tom. This might be because Daisy is a very shallow person. Tom is “old money” and has status in the community which is something Gatsby will never have, no matter how much money he has. Daisy knows this, which is why I believe she would have stayed with Tom no matter what. Her reputation is more important to her than true love.
I think that Lauren raises a good point when she says that Daisy is afraid of Tom’s anger. But I would also have to say that Daisy wants to keep her position on the social class, which she gets with Tom (see what I wrote above). If she sides with Tom, then he will obviously see that she still wants to be with him. But if she sides with Gatsby, Tom would only get madder and possibly divorce her (or at least kick her out). Daisy is too superficial to let Gatsby get in the way of what people think about her. So to answer both of the questions, Daisy is concerned more with appearances than emotions.
Erin B